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...which adorns Harvard's favorite ultraconservative publication: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Well, I won't pretend that such hyperbolic rhetoric can be applied seriously to Harvard or that an editorial constitutes much more than "nothing." Nonetheless, the sentiment has always seemed to ring true. So please bear with me for a few moments...
...This sentiment is echoed by Jane H. Corlette, a University director of government relations...
...curtain on the Pentagon's battle plan discloses a patchwork of arbitrary decisions and inflated threats. In 1993 the Administration concluded that the U.S. military needed enough forces to win two "major regional contingencies," each akin to the Persian Gulf War, at the same time. But there is growing sentiment in defense circles that the nation's two-war strategy is wrong, at least in light of expected funding levels. "The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high budget," says Pentagon cost analyst Franklin Spinney. A study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...after 15 years of failure to get the deficit under control, are these almost predictable reactions more reflexive than real? Do the Washington lobbyists and interest groups reflect popular sentiment, or just their own Beltway impulses? To see how a community confronts the prospect, two TIME correspondents spent a month examining the federal dependence of Fargo and its surrounding county, which reap $1.30 in benefits for every $1 in taxes the citizens send to Washington. While Fargo may lack the urban woes of larger cities, its federal take closely tracks the national average, and its share of spending closely matches...
...seven months before he was caught, Varenik, code-named GTFITNESS, provided American intelligence with detailed information about 170 agents and operations of the KGB and the GRU (the Soviet military intelligence arm). He tipped off the cia that the Soviets had a plan to create anti-German sentiment in the U.S. by planting explosives in bars and restaurants frequented in Germany by American service members (Varenik's role in the KGB scheme was to find places where the explosives could be hidden). "Gennadi," says one insider, "saved American lives...